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“Gay is the opium of the people.”

Gay Queer Politics

Book:Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

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“I never felt as much a citizen as I did when we became outlaws.”

Gay Immigrant Experience Queer Theory Queer Love

Book:Deep House

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“I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited.”

Party Late Invited

Book:Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

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“I understood clearly through those days that I was living a feeling. And when I remember now, I am still living that; it has been folded into me and continues to resonate. On some level, we knew then that we were creating this feeling to be taken along from then on.”

Queer Love Gay Life Gay Love

Book:Deep House

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“On weekdays, everyone would read Armistead Maupan's "Tales of the City," published as a novel in 1978. His leading character Michael "Mouse" Toliver, a clone-ish softie himself, laments the experience of meeting men– nice mustache, Levis, a starched khaki army shirt, strong– and trying to resist visiting the bathrooms, lest he encounter the giveaway, the fantasy-killer: face creams and shampoos for days." Mouse was only being wistful, but the underlying efemmophobia was pernicious on the scene. Masculinity can be something that gay men project onto one another, only to snatch it away at the first sign of inauthenticity. That they hadn't rolled out of bed looking ruggedly handsome, but required a beauty routine to get that way.”

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Book:Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

Source: Gay Bar: Why We Went Out